Things I would do to make Malawi better off

Are (in no particular order):

• Make sure people aren't hungry, have clean water and soap;
• Make sure all children are taught to read, write and think critically about things;
• Conduct a massive civic anti-corruption campaign, with the help of the Churches, progressively increase civil servants' pay, criminally prosecute more and more instances of it and heavily publisce all guilty verdicts;
• Import some lions, reduce airfares and do some serious tourism promotion;
• Build good train and road links to ports in Mozambique and Tanzania (the roads in Malawi are actually relatively good);
• Pick one of the regional trade blocks, leave the others and throw a lot of resources at selling stuff to its neighbours;
• Build irrigation systems and put the management of the water and energy companies under some serious performance related pay measures;
• Slash (maybe abolish) agricultural subsidies in the developed countries;
• Use farmer co-operatives to increase agricultural production; and
• Make court judgements enforceable against the state.

Most of which are, to some extent, already underway.

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PS - am wondering what the answer to the same question for the UK would be......